Pick-up at Oakdale Elementary School

Thorne, Barrue. “Pick-up at Oakdale Elementary School”. Berkeley Center for Working Families Working Paper No. 2, Berkeley, CA: Center for Working Families, University of California, Berkeley, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/4127.
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Abstract

Children are visible in the literature on work and family, but their presence is mostly passive, framed by their economic and emotional dependence, by their need for adult labor and time, and by "developmental outcomes" correlated with various arrangements for their care. This paper, based on collaborative fieldwork in a mixed-income, ethnically diverse area of Oakland, lays out a broader view. It considers economic, social, and cultural changes that are altering the dynamics of contemporary childhoods; and it draws upon theories of care to illuminate the moving dialectic of child and adult agency involved in the process of growing up. These themes are brought into analytic focus through an interrelated set of concepts: caring projects, caring processes, and reading signs of care. The paper concludes by arguing that the study of work and family is under-theorized and too narrowly defined and by suggesting strategies for re-visioning this field of study.

Title
Pick-up at Oakdale Elementary School: Work and family from the vantage points of chlidren
Author
Thorne, Barrue
Center
Work and Family Research Network
Genre
working paper
Date Issued
1999
Publisher
Center for Working Families, University of California, Berkeley
Extent
23 p.
Series Title
Berkeley Center for Working Families Working Paper
Series Number
No. 2
General Note
Barrie Thorne is Co-Director of the Center for Working Families and Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
Persistent Link
http://hdl.handle.net/2345/4127
Use Restrictions
Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons "Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States" (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/)

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